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Some people don’t like change…

May 20, 2010 By Erika Zane

20 May

My life is much different now, not just because I have a baby, but in EVERY aspect. I graduated in 2005 from college with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a minor in English Liturature (which I probably shouldn’t admit given the numerous spelling and grammatical errors I’m sure I have strewn throughout this blog) and was convinced I’d get involved in politics, get a job with the government, or work for an NGO. Nope! With no job prospects, I moved back in with my parents and started applying to basically every company with a job opening.


My father was in Information Technology and convinced me, since I’m a lot like him and he did not have a computer related degree either, that it would be the perfect career path for me.  It did not work out for me right away, but, after job hopping through two companies, I eventually landed a data analyst position with Informatica. Within about a month, once I completed my training, I was put on my first project which is where I met my husband.

 

So just to put this into perspective: I moved in with my parents for about six months where I commuted to one job, then I moved to New York City to work for a different company there for another six months, and then I started working for the Data Warehousing company which had me traveling to the Philadelphia vicinity. I then stayed with that company for two years with a brief, one month intermission after about one year to hop back to the company I worked for when I first graduated, which did not work out.  When I returned to Informatica they placed me on a project out west, which  is how I ended up moving us (my, then, fiance and me) there.  We put an offer on a house in a weekend visit and a few months later moved across the country and Andy had a new job.  Within a few months my boss left and I job hopped once again to follow him and got to work from home. That is when we decided to have a baby and a year later I decided I needed to stay home with him.

I just thought it would be fun to share just how much has changed in a relatively short period of time! I hope you’ve enjoyed the ride!

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  1. sassyshell says

    May 21, 2010 at 3:10 am

    >Isn't it crazy how everything changes? And we've all ended up places we never would have imagined? Now just try and imagine where we'll be in another 5, 10, 15 years! 🙂

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Hello and welcome.  It’s been a while.  For Lent this year I decided to fast from the thing that took too much of my attention from what is truly important: Social Media.  Though there are countless amazing benefits to Social Media, after about a month offline so far, there are seemingly just as many negatives.  I never realized how much of my brain had been hijacked by it.  I’ve had so many revelations about how much easier it is to move forward when I’m not constantly reminded of the past.  But I still want to record my family as they grow at this ridiculous speed and, I’m realizing, so many of our family’s memories are here.  Those along with so many of the struggles and stages we’ve worked through.  Maybe in the midst of COVID19 isolation and my kids around me so often, I’m brought back to a time when they were too young for school and with me so often.  Writing here during that time helped make up for the limited adult conversation in my days and the overwhelm provided by my… little treasures 😉 My husband, fur babies, three fiesty kids, and I hereby extend an invitation to visit this little sneak peak into our life. We’re super flawed and broken and there aren’t too many dull moments around here.  And I promise it’s not always as magical as some of my golden hour, sun-soaked images would suggest.  There’s usually too much coffee in my system and we welcome all the prayers.  Come on over if you want to process with me.

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